America could have accomplished a Mars landing 20 years ago if the political will had existed. We have the only Nimitz Class Carriers in the world and we have to have a dozen? Shelve one and get to the moon, another and get to Mars. In my mind this is the greatest atrocity in human history, placing humanity at the mercy of the next asteroid merely to be the biggest bully on this teaming rock.

I have been informed that private ventures are under way. Unless there is considerable political fragmentation—like the balkanization of the Unites States, I don't see the EU or the U.S. permitting private solar colonization. If the One World Government that evil ϲunt Hillary was supposed to implement comes to pass there will be no solar colonization.

Other than fragmentation of the powers currently blocking solar colonization, I see the other chance to getting off this rock resting on the capable shoulders of China. It would be fitting to have the celestial race stake the human claim beyond the planet of our birth.

I do hope for the expansion of Man beyond the stars. However, keep in mind that socialist, collectivist, leftist, liberal thinkers and sheeple—which describes most millennials—are likely to cite solar colonization as fascist and oppose its implementation so long as a single person suffers from hunger or disease on earth. Think of it this way, any politician who has read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert H. Heinlein will oppose a lunar or Martian expedition—if even by clandestine sabotage—while at the same time voicing support for private space ventures.

If a private entity gets to Mars there will be a military move to bring the solar colony under earth rule—believe that. I do expect lots of feel good press from the media over a Mars mission, but, if I am lucky enough to see this, will keep in mind that private space settlement is a threat to every government on earth, and that state-sponsored settlement will become as much a threat to earth governments as America became to European States.